The writer suggests that government should take targeted policies to _________.

Since 1971 the Canadian government has adopted policy of ______, recognizing that cultural pluralism with- in a bilingual framework is the essence of the Canadian identity.

A．assimilation

B．integration

C．multiculturalism

D．gender equality

Since 1971 the Canadian government has adopted policy of ______, recognizing that cultural pluralism within a bilingual framework is the essence of the Canadian identity.

A．assimilation

B．integration

C．multiculturalism

D．gender equality

her to the police station and asked police to take care of her

The author suggests that the chief motivation for forcing standardized tests on homeschooled children is______.

A．one of irrational fear that it is not sharing the same goals

B．to force the public school curriculum on homeschoolers

C．that homeschoolers are not properly monitored

D．that they may provide competition with them

The passage mentions that all of the following issues were at stake in the conflict between antebellum ideology and the values born in the Civil War EXCEPT

A．The question of whether benevolent organization funds should be used for non-charitable purposes

B．The degree to which benevolent organizations were centralized in their administration and control

C．The type of relationship that should exist between women's charitable organizations and government

D．The question of the amount of money and the status women received in exchange for their work

E．The determination of working conditions for those women associated with benevolent organizations

The italicized part "heaping the heaviest blame on the last" probably implies that

A．Joseph might dislike Catherine most.

B．Catherine was blamed most by Earnshaw.

C．Heathcliff blamed Catherine for her deeds.

D．Joseph spoke ill of every child in the house.

听力原文： Why must we pay taxes? The answer is that the government needs money for many things, for example to pay its soldiers, sailors and airmen, to build roads, bridges, offices, schools, etc; and only the people of the country can supply the money.

One of the most important taxes is income-tax which a person pays according to the amount of his income, whether he is a merchant, a doctor, a lawyer, a shopkeeper. This is called a "direct" tax, because it is paid in money direct to the government.

Another tax is paid on goods such as watches, new clothes, tobacco, wine, etc. When they are brought into a country, such a tax is paid as part of the price of these goods if they are later sold in shops. We call it "indirect" tax because it is paid indirectly through the shopkeeper.

People usually complain about having to pay taxes, but they forget that the money is spent on things that they and their families need. We need policemen to catch thieves, to see that men obey the laws, to direct traffic, etc., and they must be paid what they earn; children need education and there must be schools and teachers; we want our streets to be kept clean, and the wages of men who do this kind of work have to be paid.

Taxes, anyway, cannot be avoided. We buy our own food and clothes and pay for our own amusements; but there are several things that the State finds the money for, and that are necessary for us if our society is to continue. We have no real cause to complain, when we are asked to supply money to be spent for the good of ourselves and for our fellow citizens.

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A．The tax that one pays to the companies instead of government.

B．The tax that one pays through the shopkeeper for the goods.

C．The tax is paid as part of the price of the goods.

D．The tax is not paid to the government.

New research from Vanderbilt University suggests that we can remember more faces than other objects and that faces "stick" the best in our short-term memory. The reason may be that our expertise in remembering faces allows us to package them better for memory.

"Our results show that we can store more faces than other objects in our visual short-term memory," Gauthier, associate professor of psychology and the study's co-author, said. "We believe this happens because of the special way in which faces are encoded."

Kim Curby, the study's primary author and a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University, likens such encoding to packing a suitcase. "How much you can fit in a bag depends on how well you pack it," she said. "In the same way, our expertise in 'packaging' faces means that we can remember more of them."

Curby and Gauthier's research has practical implications for the way we use visual short-term memory or VSTM. "Being able to store more faces in VSTM may be very useful in complex social situations," Gauthier said.

"This opens up the possibility of training people to develop similarly superior VSTM for other categories of objects," Curby added.

Short-term memory is crucial to our impression of a continuous world, serving as temporary storage for information that we are currently using. For example, in order to understand this sentence, your short-term memory will remember the words in the beginning while you read through to the end. VSTM is a component of short-term memory that helps us process and briefly remember images and objects, rather than words and sounds.

VSTM allows us to remember objects for a few seconds, but its capacity is limited. Curby and Gauthier's new research focuses on whether we can store more faces than other objects in VSTM, and the possible mechanisms underlying this advantage.

Study participants studied up to five faces on a screen for varying lengths of time (up to four seconds). A single face was later presented and participants decided if this was a face that was part of the original display. For a comparison, the process was repeated with other objects, like watches or cars.

Curby and Gauthier found that when participants studied the displays for only a brief amount of time (half a second), they could store fewer faces than objects in VSTM. They believe this is because faces are more complex than watches or cars and require more time to be encoded. Surprisingly, when participants were given more time to encode the images (four seconds), an advantage for faces over objects emerged.

The researchers believe that our experience with faces explains this advantage. This theory is supported by the fact that the advantage was only obtained for faces encoded in the upright orientation, with which we are most familiar. Faces that were encoded upside-down showed no advantage over other objects.

We can remember more faces than other objects in our VSTM because______.

A．we have better knowledge for storing faces

B．faces last longer in our memory

C．we package faces better for memory

D．faces are encoded in a special way in our mind

The passage implies that______.

A．the Cyrillic alphabet was invented for the Aleut language

B．all of the Cyrillic characters were used in writing the Aleut language

C．Russian and the Aleut language have some similar speech sounds

D．English is also written using the Cyrillic alphabet